15 Celebrities Who Said They’d Move to Canada If Trump Won & Didn’t

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Nobody thought Trump would win, me included.

And unfortunately these celebrities didn’t think he would win either, so they made a deal.

A deal they had to later refuse.

Because, hey, America still is pretty great despite Trump winning the White House.

So here are the celebrities who said they would leave the country if Donald Trump won the White House, and let it be a lesson the next time we have an election and people make claims about what they will or won’t do.

Amy Schumer

Net worth:

Schumer earned $17 million last year according to Forbes

What she said:

‘My act will change because I will need to learn to speak Spanish. Because I will move to Spain or somewhere,’ comedian Schumer declared in a BBC News night interview in September.

Now she says:

‘First of all the interview where I said I would move was in London and was said in jest,’ she said. ‘Not that anyone needs more than a headline to count something as official news. Anyone saying pack your bags is just as disgusting as anyone who voted for this racist homophobic openly disrespectful woman abuser. Like the rest of us I am grieving today. My heart is in a million pieces. My heart breaks for my niece and my friends who are pregnant bringing children into the world right now.’

Lena Dunham`

Net worth:

$12 million as of last year, according to Celebrity Net Worth

What she said:

I know a lovely place in Vancouver, and I can get my work done from there,’ Dunham, 30, declared to the Hollywood Reporter at the Matrix Awards in New York in April.

Now she says:

‘Maybe I’d even get close enough to Hillary Clinton to hug her, to whisper “Thank you”‘, she speculated.

Whoopi Goldberg

Net worth:

$45 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth

What she said:

‘The minute you start pointing and saying that person is a rapist and a murderer, it pisses me off because I’ve been part of that when they just use a blanket statement to talk about black people or when they use a blanket statement to talk about white people or women or any other group. I don’t think that’s America. I don’t want it to be America. Maybe it’s time for me to move, you know. I can afford to go. I’ve always been an American, and this has always been my country and we’ve always been able to have discussions. And suddenly now it’s turning into, you know, not them, not them.’

What she says now:

‘I’m not leaving the country that I was born and raised in,’ she said. ‘You don’t get to tell me that I’m going.’

Samuel L. Jackson

Net worth:

$170 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth

He said:

‘If that motherf****r becomes president I will move my black ass to South Africa.’ His claim was made on a Jimmy Kimmel sketch in December 2015.

Now he says:

Cher

Net worth:

$320 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth

What she said:

‘If he is elected, I’m moving to Jupiter,’ in a June 2015 tweet.

Now she says:

Immediately after Trump’s victory, the 70-year-old singer took to social media and wrote: ‘The world will never be the same. I feel sad for the young. [Trump] will never be more than the toilet, I’ve used as a symbol 4 Him. U Can’t Polish [a t***].’

Miley Cyrus

Net worth:

$160 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth

She said:

‘We’re all just f*****g jam between his rich ass toes. Honestly f*** this s**t I am moving if this is my president! I don’t say things I don’t mean!).’ Instagram post on March 2.

Now she says:

‘And happy hippies, we adjust and we accept everyone for who they are. And so Donald Trump, I accept you,’ she said. And this hurts to say, but I even accept you as the President of the United States, and that’s fine, that’s fine because I think now I want to be a hopeful hippie. But please just treat people with love and treat people compassion and treat people with respect and I will do the same for you.’

Chloe Sevigny

Net worth:

$8 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth

She said:

‘I’ll move to Nova Scotia,’ speaking during a red carpet interview with The Scene in February.

Now she says

:

Nothing. Sevigny, 41, has not given her views on the election results or, indeed, her travel plans.

George Lopez

Net worth:

$35 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth

He said:

‘If he wins, he won’t have to worry about immigration; we’ll all go back,’ speaking to TMZ in July 2015.

Larry Flynt

Net worth:

He said:

‘The thought of Donald Trump becoming president nauseates me in a big way. What if he wins? ‘I don’t know, maybe move to Canada,’ he said, speaking to Toronto’s HOSS Magazine in October.

What he says now:

Nothing.

Ne-Yo

Net worth:

$16 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth

He said:

‘I’m moving to Canada straight away. Me and Drake gonna be neighbors if Donald Trump becomes president,’ he told TMZ in October 2016. Drake is from Toronto.

What he says now:

The R&B star is currently on tour in the UK and is yet to comment on the results of the election. He is also yet to say whether he plans to move to Canada.

Bryan Cranston

Net worth:

$30 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth

He said:

‘Absolutely. I would definitely move. It’s not real to me that that would happen. I hope to God it won’t. It wouldn’t be a vacation. I’d be an expatriate.’ Response to being asked if he would move to Canada in the event of a Trump win by the hosts of The Best Seller Experiment podcast at the start of November.

Now he says:

Nothing.

Omari Hardwick

Net worth

:

$1.5 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth

He said:

‘I’ll move from Denver to Italy… If Donald Trump wins the presidency, I’m out,’ speaking in an interview with The Wrap in July 2015.

What he says now:

‘I am staring into her eyes telepathically saying to her ‘Papa gotchu, baby girl.’ While my kingly Brave boy of a son keeps tackling me, i sit & think at least their first president was a real one, whether they remember it or not.’

Natasha Lyonne

Net worth:

$3 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth

She said:

‘[I’ll move] to a mental hospital [if Trump wins] for a while because you’re like “why is this happening?”‘

Now she says:

‘Nightmare’ was Lyonne’s verdict on the election of Trump immediately after his election on Tuesday night.

Chelsea Handler

Net worth:

$35 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth

She said:

‘I did buy a house in another country just in case. So all these people that threaten to leave the country and then don’t — I actually will leave that country,’ speaking on ABC’s Live with Michael and Kelly in May.

Now she says:

‘It’s easy to throw in the towel and say that we’re gonna leave, or I’m gonna move to Spain,’ she said. ‘Because I want to move to Spain, I really, really want to move to Spain right now. But everyone in my office is like, “You have a responsibility. You have a voice, you need to use it and you have to be here.”‘

Barbra Streisand

Net worth:

$340 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth

She said:

‘He has no facts. I don’t know, I can’t believe it [Trump’s campaign]. I’m either coming to your country [Australia], if you’ll let me in, or Canada,’ speaking to Australia’s Seven News Sydney in August.

Now she says:

She issued a heartbroken message on Twitter that read: ‘Words cannot express how I feel right now’.